Windows Marketplace now live on Mobile 6.5

For those of you who visited an AT&T store over the weekend and picked up a shiny new HTC Pure, you will have been aching to get on to the upcoming Windows Marketplace on October 6. We have conformation that the new Windows App Store is now live for phones running on Windows Mobile 6.5, a whole day early.

Engadget has confirmed that the new applications store is now up and running, so you best head over there now. With good news cones bad, all those who are running Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1 versions will not be able to download any of these apps.

According to Umbergizmo, Windows Marketplace will launch in two phases, the first was launched today and the second phase will be the App Store for uses running Windows 6.0 and 6.1. Let us know what your first thoughts of the new Windows Marketplace are.